one thing I did notice is the fluctuation of speed when ripping a game using the wii. While ripping marvel super hero squad for my son, there were periods where it was ripping quickly then it would slow down to a crawl. After about the 3rd hour it was only at 29% so I cancelled it.

one thing I did notice is the fluctuation of speed when ripping a game using the wii. While ripping marvel super hero squad for my son, there were periods where it was ripping quickly then it would slow down to a crawl. After about the 3rd hour it was only at 29% so I cancelled it.

Does anyone know why it does this?

I noticed this only when my drive is almost completely full. Not sure what it's doing.

Run a windows disk check/cleanup on your external HDD - I had a problem ripping games to it at first (from the wii) - it would get stuck at a certain percent - but after I ran that...it was flawless. It takes a while, but it solved my issue.

Rawdump 2.1 rips the data for wii disk at an agonizingly slow rate it also saves the file as a full iso I.E. 4.7GB's this is not the size of the game it's self as most wbfs games don't come close to 3 GB's and there are even some that are only a few hundred MB's.

Rawdump was good for it's time but that time has long been forgotten.
Now if some one came up with a new speeder method then by all means use it but wii+HDD+Usbloader is the fastest.